Back إمبراطورية الشمس (رواية) Arabic এম্পায়ার অফ দ্য সান Bengali/Bangla Empire of the Sun (nofel) Welsh El imperio del sol (novela) Spanish Empire du soleil (roman) French Empire of the Sun Galician L'impero del sole (romanzo) Italian Imperium słońca (powieść) Polish Імперія Сонця (роман) Ukrainian 太陽帝國 (小說) Chinese
&sq=Albert Einstein&lang=en&file=File:EmpireOfTheSun(1stEd).jpg) Cover of the first edition (hardback) | |
| Author | J. G. Ballard |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Pat Doyle[1] |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Autobiographical, War |
| Publisher | Gollancz |
Publication date | 13 September 1984 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 278 pp (first edition, hardback) |
| ISBN | 0-575-03483-1 (first edition, hardback) |
| OCLC | 260149687 |
| LC Class | PR6052.A46 E45x 1984b |
| Followed by | The Kindness of Women |
Empire of the Sun is a 1984 novel by English writer J. G. Ballard; it was awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.[2] Like Ballard's earlier short story "The Dead Time" (published in the anthology Myths of the Near Future), it is essentially fiction but draws extensively on Ballard's experiences in World War II. The name of the novel is derived from the etymology of the name for Japan.
Ballard later wrote of his experiences in China as a boy and the making of the film of the same name in his autobiography Miracles of Life.
- ^ Modern first editions - a set on Flickr
- ^ Bruce Weber (21 April 2009). "J.G. Ballard, Empire of the Sun Author, Dies at 78". The New York Times. Retrieved 18 March 2015.